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Great defining event of 21st century expected to occur in three decades

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline is a finalist for this year's prestigious Donner Prize, one of the five best Canadian public policy books of the year. Here, the two authors offer an essay about their bestselling book and why they wrote it.

Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, authors of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, say in the next three decades or so the global population will start to decline. 'Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, so rampant in the popular imagination, but of a population bust—a relentless, generation-after-generation culling of the human herd. Nothing like this has ever happened before.' Photographs courtesy of Penguin Random House

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BY DARRELL BRICKER AND JOHN IBBITSON
June 8, 2020

feature | BY DARRELL BRICKER AND JOHN IBBITSON | June 8, 2020

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